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Oscar ratings plunge to a record low

Oscar ratings plunge to a record low

NEW YORK (AP) — Television viewers could barely stifle a yawn for Hollywood’s biggest night, with the Academy Awards plunging to a record-low viewership of 26.5 million people.

The Nielsen company said that’s a 20 percent drop from the 33 million who watched the 2017 show, which was also hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Oscar viewership is often tied to the box office muscle of the big nominees, and best picture winner “The Shape of Water” only grossed $57.4 million in the United States.

It’s the first time the Oscars have drawn fewer than 30 million people, in Nielsen records that go back to 1974. The Academy Awards are often the most-watched television program of the year after the Super Bowl, but this year’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony from Pyeongchang reached 27.8 million.

The previous low-water mark for the Oscars came in 2008, when “No Country For Old Men” won best picture.

Only four years ago the Oscar reached nearly 44 million viewers. The biggest Academy Awards audience on record came in 1998, when the blockbuster “Titanic” was named best picture.

The Academy Awards can keep bragging rights over other awards shows. The Golden Globes reached 19 million viewers in January and the Grammys had an audience of 19.8 million, Nielsen said.

The Academy Awards aka communism personified. The clown hypocrites who have body guards with guns and yet want gun control. These actors and actresses scream “global warming” yet they live in mansions and get picked up in limousines. These actors and actresses want open borders with Mexico, yet their mansions have walls. These clown actors and actresses scream women’s rights but support and give applause to the Harvey Weinsteins in Hollywood and Roman Polanski who drugged and raped a 13 year old girl. These clowns scream about opioids, yet the drug fentanyl is brought across our southern border and these clowns want open borders. Hollywood scum at its finest!

ANd how many hollyweird elites have been in rehab TIME AND TIME again, for drug abuse?? TOO many to count. Add to that, they all get flown around in private jets, have MULTIPLE Houses, often each staffed and operating all the time (increasing their green footprint)…

Let us hope that the 2018 election will reflect a similar public distain for political mind manipulation over entertainment. This is one election where just showing up actually counts where smart Americans CANNOT not just turn off the media box, but MUST proactively enter the ballot box. The dark forces are gathering like clouds so the forces of light must respond in kind and overwhelmingly participate, so that real life will no longer reflect the current state of what would have in previous generations been considered impossible proposed death dealing fiction, now thanks to the secular liberals is become the new American reality.

I fear you are right, ItUser. The mobs of millennials who have had their Trump-hatred relentlessly STOKED by the LYING media, and the “minorities” who have been told repeatedly how “racist” and or “anti-immigrant” or “anti-Muslim” he is, will likely turn out in DROVES to vote for the Commucrat candidate in 2020.

Unless the Conservatives want to return to the days of Obama TYRANNY and LUNACY, they had BETTER likewise turn out in DROVES to OUTVOTE them! And I sure hope Pres. Trump is able to call a HALT to the illegals voting, dead people voting and OTHER MASSIVE election fraud the Commucrats are using to steal elections these days!

I NEVER watch awards shows and never will! Bunch of libs with double-jointed shoulders that allow them to pat themselves on the back. Idiots! Bad enough that every FOX News/FOX Business show feels it necessary to show nauseating clips (worse than commercials). Never waste money on theaters either.

Add to that i REALLY HATE IT that even if the award show is on channel X.. Most other channels do NOT AIR new episodes of their shows, so they “DOn’t have to compete”?? SORRY BUT i am sick to death of that.

Stopped watching the Oscars as well as other award shows. Full of “full of themselves” needy entertainers that can’t survive with adoration. Gone are the days of classy and truly talented actors like Burton, Taylor, Peck, Cooper, Douglas, etc. Here are the talentless and worthless loudmouthed hypocrites begging the world “love me, adore me”.

Nuts. There are millions more watching The View, the bachelor, and all the othe mindless garbage on TV. I know it might make you ill but take a few minutes to look at the audiences of these shows and look at grown women cheering like teenage girls. We take comfort on conservative web sites and radio but the country is full of dingbats who, if I wasn’t a gentleman I might call deplorable or at least immature.

One of the reasons I did not watch the Oscars is because Kimmel was hosting them. I just don’t care for his brand of humor. Makes me wonder what he wants to be when he grows up.

Been many years since I have watched the Oscars. I don’t even care who wins. I haven’t watched the Oscars since they started using them as another political platform. Not only has politics ruined The Oscars, it has ruined the Emmy’s, the Grammys, the Miss America Pageant and is taking its toll on Professional Sports. A nickels worth of free advice to the Academy. Keep politics out of the program and stop letting it influence who will win an award and who will not. That is one time everyone should keep their political opinions to themselves.

Their only job is to entertain. They are nothing more than puppets, so I really don’t care what they think about any issue. I would rather they would just sing, dance or act. Other than that I wish they would just shut up.

That is about how long it has been since I stopped watching them. There was a time when they were actually entertaining. I usually wait until a movie comes out in DVD. The cost to rent the movie along with the cost of providing your own snacks and drinks, in most cases, is less than the cost of a theater ticket. That way I get to watch it in the comforts of my home and I don’t have to pay those outrageous prices at the theater for a ticket along with the popcorn and drinks.

Heck, if one checks with their local libraries, THEY OFTEN get the new releases at or around the same time as they come out at Redbox, and you can check them out from the library for FREE! So other than paying for the little gas needed, and your own snacks (which more than likely you already HAVE at home), it is WELL LESS than what a ticket costs.
Add to that, you can watch it AS MANY TIMES AS you wish, while you have it checked out, and it is IMO strange how so many DON’T just ditch the overpriced theaters..

Didn’t even realize we had skipped it until Monday. Thinking about it was like a show that you no longer like – you don’t even think of tuning in. Sick of in your face politics butting into entertainment and evening news reports. Like some of the other commentators, best suggestion is is to stop watching.

I used to watch the Oscars every year, but knowing it would be the same Trump-bashing BS that has prevailed on ALL the Hollyweird and music award shows this year, I made up my mind I would not watch. I had forgotten it was even ON Sunday night, until I heard somebody on a news broadcast mention it. Didn’t watch. Don’t know who won. Don’t care. I used to be able to overlook the liberal IDIOCY of movie actors. But they have become so aggressive and OBNOXIOUS about pushing their lib-toon opinions on the rest of us, with their prissy little lectures and outrageous moral preening and virtual signalling (like the BABYLON of Hollywood has ANYTHING to feel “morally superior” about!) that there are very few of them whose movies I care to see nowadays. I find that I am simply NOT able to get past who they REALLY are to watch them perform in a movie at this point. Dolly Parton is right. They are entertainers, and should keep their damned mouths SHUT, because we truly do NOT care about their opinions, or consider them experts on politics, policy, etc. that we should listen to them. Movies are just one MORE thing the damned liberals have ruined for the rest of us!

And even if the REST of them were not liberal idiots, having that blubbering FOOL Jimmy Kimmel as the host would just about be a deal-breaker for me to watch the Oscars, in any case!

I didn’t watch the Oscars, either, and haven’t for years. Most of the garbage released by the Hollywood studios isn’t worth watching. I find the non stop profanity, graphic violence and gratuitous nudity, to be major turn-offs. The current crop of Hollywood actors and actresses are, with rare exception, just as forgettable as the films. And this is what the younger generation is exposed to. It is one of the major influences on the moral decay of our society. I enjoy older films on TV re-runs., especially the ’40s, ’50s, and even, 60s.